Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)
Apple A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
153310
Apple A12 Bionic
+319%
643548
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
169
Apple A12 Bionic
+669%
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
763
Apple A12 Bionic
+272%
2843
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
115
Apple A12 Bionic
+400%
576
CPU
8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
1800 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
-
L2 cache
8 MB
14 nm
Process
7 nm
2
Transistor count
6.9
3 W
TDP
6 W
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 506
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
600 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
1
Execution units
4
96
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.1152 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
11
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR4X
933 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
1x 32 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
7.46 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon 546
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
NVMe
1920 x 1200
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 21MP, 2x 13MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
X9
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.1
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Jun 2017
Announced
Sep 2018
Low end
Class
Flagship
SDM450
Model number
APL1W81
